Jenna's Bylines & Beyond

Multiple sclerosis (MS) can affect children, though it's less common than in adults. The Valdez family shares their story about Aaliyah's diagnosis at age 6, and how they've been impacted by MS.

Food should be a source of joy, not illness.

Created by the Affordable Care Act to cut costs and improve quality, Medicare’s penalty programs disproportionately impact hospitals serving the sickest and poorest patients.

Medicare levies penalties against hospitals for lack of quality care, but does the system punish those facilities that accept lower-income patients?

Medicare levies penalties against hospitals in an effort to reduce the number of infections patients pick up at these facilities.

Hospitals are penalized by Medicare for high readmission rates, but does this system really encourage better healthcare?

A deep dive into the data on federal pay-for-performance programs for hospitals turned up a few key lessons along the way for Healthline's Jenna Flannigan, including the importance of understanding what health metrics are actually measuring.

High doses of the vitamin biotin in a person's blood can cause errors in some medical lab tests, and these faulty test results have already been linked to one death, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

When it comes to bacterial infections, maybe we should be fighting fire with fire.

Activity trackers alone don’t motivate people to exercise more, but incentives that use principles from behavioral economics can help.

Traveling to space is a risky business! But NASA has ways to keep astronauts safer.